Thanks Wayne! Had not seen the Icydocks even when I perused FWD's site a few times. Probably because I was searching for a case with a fan and more than one type interface. Icydock's MB559 is nice, a toss up now between it and the AMS Venus DS3 which has a 80mm fan. Sad both units limit choices to to eSATA+USB or USB+FW but free extra tray is a selling point! ;)
Passive cooling worries me after a pair of Speedzter 3's cost me $100/ea and caused so many overheating headaches with 7200RPM IDE maxtor's. New drive is a 7200.10 500GB SATA seagate that I don't want to cook. The cases I had been looking at were dual drive USB+FW w/40mm fan from CoolGear (base model only has eSATA @ ~$80) and AMS Venus DS3R at ~$150 with USB/FW. Neither having eSATA combined with USB or FW which I really want eSATA+FW, hence the external bridgeboard question and I liked the dual drive idea. Seems all the inexpensive cases (<$50) are IDE only, prolific chipset, and have no fan. Wayne Johnson wrote: > At 23:25 06-21-2007, j maccraw typed: > Seems the enclosure I want is $90 eSATA only and $150 > when you add USB or firewire. SO I wonder if a external > bridge is cheaper way to go? > > Where have you looked? Firewire Depot ? Here is an enclosure for SATA I > or II that connects to the system with either USB or eSata & it's only > $80. <http://fwdepot.com/thestore/product_info.php/products_id/1811> > > If you want to add 1394a the same product is $95 so I have no idea where > you're getting $150. > > Here's a Bridge board if you want to go that way > <http://fwdepot.com/thestore/product_info.php/products_id/1455> but it's > $79 but you don't get the case which is another $55 > <http://fwdepot.com/thestore/product_info.php/products_id/1223> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~ > WaViJo Forever > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sick sense of humor? Visit Yahoo! TV's Comedy with an Edge to see what's on, when. http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/222
